Interesting item on eBay: Canadian Tandy "Colour"

[Trogdor]

Interesting item on eBay: Canadian Tandy "Colour" Computer 3

All:

I was just searching for Tandy Color Computer 3's in original boxes on eBay since I have one in the box and I wanted to know approx. how much it was worth, and I came across this auction:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2733960044&category=4193

It is a Canadian model Tandy Color Computer 3. Instead of saying "Color", it says the Canadianized word "Colour" on the box, and on the system as well (the seller confirmed this). My box and system say "Color".

What I thought was interesting about mine when I got it was that the cpu is not an 8008, 8080, 8085, or Z80; it's a Motorola MC68B09EP. I had thought all Tandy's were based on either Intel or Zilog chips, but I guess not.

This caught my eye so I thought I'd share it with you. I won't be bidding on it, even though it'd be nice to have.

[morkork]

[Trogdor]

morkork:

Wow, that was very informative. Thank you. It was easy to get the idea of what was being said from the page you linked me to directly, but as I wanted to read the history page, I used my favorite free online translation service T-Sail and T-Text to get the gist of what was being said on that page.

I was especially interested in the information about the Tandy 2000. I had known that it and the Mindset PC were the only two (American) 80186 based personal computers, and both flopped, but I did not know that the Tandy (at least) ran MS-DOS but was not IBM-PC compatable.